The food
And because of the language-barrier we rarely knew what we were eating – we pointed at unidentified slabs of meat, watched as the chefs flamed their woks, said grace and gratefully loaded our bodies with bowls of oil-drenched stirfry, steaming rice and warm, thick, oily soups.

Below a typical stir-fry-pick-a-mix, including fresh, splayed cat.



A A mobile Hot-Dog stand along the way – offering golden, crispy, barbequed mongrels

A live menu – Gill harbouring thoughts of rescue as so many times on our journey

We consumed on average two to four kilograms of fruit a day

Bananas and condensed milk - a firm favourite